| Welcome to the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Georgia.
We are a large and diverse department with a full-time faculty of nineteen. We offer courses in world literatures and languages, literary theory and interdisciplinary studies. Our literature classes include a full range of comparative courses in European literature and culture from Antiquity to the present and in the literatures and cultures of Africa, and Asia. Our interdisciplinary courses focus on literature and film, literature and the visual arts, literature and music, and literature and nature. We are the home of eight Asian and African language programs: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi, Swahili, Yoruba and Manding. We offer majors in Chinese and Japanese and minors in Korean. Students in our language programs work closely with native speakers and participate in activities that enhance their understanding of the cultural heritage of each language. |
News & Upcoming Events: Linda Marie Brooks, an associate professor in the department of comparative literature, died June 7 at the Duke University Medical Center. At the time of her death, she was being evaluated for a lung transplant to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare and incurable lung disease she had been fighting for the past
10 years. A lung transplant she received in 2009 at the University of California, Los Angeles, failed during a viral outbreak last August. The Department of Comparative Literature congratulates undergraduate majors Emily Heilker, John Amble Johnson, William Daniel Jordan, and Kelly Servick on their induction into Phi Beta Kappa! Check out the new website for UMLAUT: The Comparative Literature Department Graduate Student Organization at UGA. |
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